[Histonet] Re: how often do you change your hematoxylin?

[Bob Richmond]

Meryl Roberts describes a vintage hematoxylin.

I didn't know that hematoxylin came in vintages. But here's a poem by
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., written about 1880, that makes the
comparison.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobrichmond/3866070073/in/set-72157622048353383

Holmes, a nearly forgotten American poet (he wrote "The Chambered
Nautilus" and "The Wonderful One Hoss Shay") was a physician whose day
job professor of anatomy at Harvard. There was some interest in
lead-mordanted hematoxylins at that time, and he may have been working
with them.

Holmes actually published the poem as you see it on my Flickr link.
What would now be called a concrete poem.

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Knoxville TN